St James South Member of Parliament Sandra Husbands has used the unsettling discovery of a man’s body in a 30-foot well in St Michael to make a call for volunteerism and community responses to societal changes.“As a society, there are things that we are going to have to start to do to be able to regain control over the behaviour of people in society,” she said. “Things like parental training. You cannot expose the citizenry to a steady diet of violence on television. You expose them to a steady diet of violence on social media, and you have entities that right now have a strong influence over our young people.“When we were children, it was our homes, it was the church. That was our community. There was a consistent set of values by which we lived so that when we watch television, there is a filter within our minds that says what is acceptable and not acceptable. If children are not getting those values and that training, they cannot make good decisions. And when people have the feeling that they want to get something and they just do whatever they want to get it regardless of how it affects people.”Highlighting the decline in community involvement, Husbands, who is also Minister of Foreign Trade, also advocated for the restoration of volunteerism, citing a shortage of mentors and role models for youth in activities.
